The Mutations of Professional Responsibility: Toward Collaborative Community

Sharing leadership for diffusion of innovation in professionalized settings

“…Finally, our study responds to calls for more contextualized understandings of leadership dynamics (Liden and Antonakis, 2009). Our study highlights the effect of organizational financial performance (Currie and Spyridonidis, 2015;Spyridonidis & Currie, 2016), enactment of hybrid leadership (Croft et al, 2015a;2015b), and existence of hierarchical or collaborative organization (Adler et al, 2015;Adler, Kwon and Heckscher, 2008;Heckscher and Adler, 2006;Irvine, 1999;Mitchell and Ream, 2015) upon shared leadership for diffusion of innovation.…”

“…Similarly, nurse leader capabilities may never be realised in diffusion of innovation because they are rendered subordinate to doctors (Lockett et al, 2014). What we see in the 'success' case of COPD case is more collaborative community as advocated by Adler et al, (2015) amongst others (see also Adler, Kwon and Heckscher, 2008;Heckscher and Adler, 2006;Irvine, 1999;Mitchell and Ream, 2015), free of managerial-professional tensions and inter-professional hierarchy.…”

Collegiality as political work: Professions in today’s world of organizations

“…The transition from professional community (the traditional organizing principle of professions based on a blend of craft guild and individualistic association features) to collaborative community (relying on greater interdependence and accountability) is a challenging process where a variety of professional interests and values combine and conflate in an attempt to stabilize new organizational forms and work organizations (Adler et al 2008). Within this process, the principle of community based on trust, underpinned by observing common traditions and rooted in rigid status structures, is reformulated to take into account external contingencies and their implications for relations among professionals and between professional groups (Adler et al 2015;Kirkpatrick and Noordegraaf 2015). Supporting the view that this is a mutation rather than a displacement, Adler and colleagues highlight Friedson's (1984) argument that the distinctive features of professionalism have not been drastically eroded, but that professional regulation has been further rationalised and formalised, as exemplified by the emergence of these collaborative communities.…”

Community Discovery for Knowledge Collaborations in Collective intelligence Systems

“…Especially in nowadays, with the rapid evolution of computer and Internet technologies, people more rely on collaborations to solve complex problems. Meanwhile, more and more information and knowledge are generated by groups of experts rather than individuals [1], [18]. Hence, how to facilitate the generation of collective intelligence has become an important research question.…”

“…The experts may be from different domains, and connected together through some interactions. The proposed approach can analyse and estimate the collaboration quality of expert groups 1 Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand minjie@uow.edu.au (i.e., how well they can work together), and recommend suitable groups for a cross-domain complex problem.…”